CONTENTS. xi Wordsworth 15. An April Day Longfellow 191 2. The Worship of Nature. 178 16. Ode on the Spring John G. Whittier 17. The Jackdaw 3. The Love of Nature, Thomson 179 18. A Hyınn on the Seasons, 195 Leigh Hunt 181 19. Ope, Folded Rose, Mrs. Hemans 21. Hymn of Nature,w.o. Peabody 201 Logan 185 22. Cleon and I Charles Mackay 202 9. The Charms of Nature, Beattie 186 23. The Deserted Village, 11. The Melodies of Morning, 187 24. A May Day Song,W.C. Bennett 205 Beattie 25. The World is too much with us, 206 13. The Study and Beauties of the 26. The Gladness of Nature, Bryant 207 Works of Nature. Thomson 18927. Song-on May Morning, Milton 208 SECTION VI. 1. Hymn to the Night, Longfellow 209 22. Stanzas written on a Spring 2. The Nightingale and the Glow. Cowper 210 23. Van Herbert 237 3. The Street-musician; or, ihe 24. The Blind Highland hoy, Power of Music, Wordsworth 211 4. On a distant Prospect of Eton 25. Thank Heaven, I'm still a Boy 240 J. G. Percivul Mirs, Hawkshawe Rogers 242 Bernard Barton 29. The Beleaguered City, 244 8. Footsteps of Angels, Longfellow 219 Hannah F. Gould 31. Mutability Shelley 247 Cowper 222 33. The Child's First Grief, Southey 223 34. Lines written in Early Spring, 250 15. The Soldier's Dream, Campbell 228 35. Separation, James Montgomery 250 16. Night. James Montgomery 229 36. To a Daisy Wordsworth 231 37. Birds of Passage, Mrs. Hemans 252 20. The Light of Stars, Longfellow 233 40. The Hour of Death, . . Burns 232 38, To a Waterfowl Bryant 254 19. To Daffodils Herrick 232 39. To a Skylark 256 21. Venus "Tupper 234 Mrs. Hemans . 290 258 32. Christ Stilling the Tempest, 3. Our Duty Here Bowring 260 33. Spread of the Gospel Heber 291 4. The Reaper and the Flowers, 260 34. The Riddle of the World, 292 5. Hope beyond the Grave, Beattie 261 35. The Lord's Prayer Paraphrased, 293 6. What Makes a Happy Old Age, 262 263 37. Education, the Support of Pub- 264 38. Elegy Written in a Country 9. Take no Thought for To 39. Humility Montgomery 300 Moore 266 41. The Hour of Prayer, 12. The Destruction of Sennacherib, 267 42. The Worth of Hours, 13. Child's Evening Prayer, 268 43. Adversity. Shakspeare 305 Coleridge 44. The Field of the World, Cowper 271 45. Hymn to Adversity Gray 307 Anonymous 47. All's for the Best Tupper 310 Shakspeare 273 48. Imaginary Evils . C. Swain 311 18. The Complaints of the Poor, 274 49. Address to Light Milton 312 19. Human Life . Bernard Barton 275 51. " Blessed are they that Mourn,” 315 Mrs. Gilbert 52. The Cotter's Saturday Night, 316 22. Happiness and Duty, Pollock 27953. Wo Works Wisdom . Cameron 318 23. A Psalm of Life. Lungfellow 279 54. The Graves of a Household, 319 C. Á. Kennedy 55. On 1.he Receipt of My Mother's 25. The Winter Storm Burns 282 26. The Power of God Moore 283 56. The Primrose 27. Human Frailty Cowper 284 57. All Men are Brethren, Southey 325 285 58. Weak is the Will of Man, 325 29. Moral Beauty, Rufus Dawes 286 59. The Victory of Faith, HISTORICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL POEMS. I. THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE. Sir John MOORE was born in Glasgow, in the year 1761, and after a complete military education, as well as distinguished services in the field, he was appointed to the chief command of the army to be employed in Spain. Moore, finding the reinforcements poured in by Napoleon too great to be successfully resisted, was induced to commence a retreat which turned out to be both precipitate and disastrous. The disasters, however, were closed on the 16th January, 1809, by the battle of Corunna, in which the British troops, though previously much exhausted, were animated by their gallant leader, and repulsed their pursuers under Marshal Soult. But their triumph was dearly purchased by the loss of their commander, the circumstances of whose death may challenge a comparison with the most illustrious examples of ancient or modern times,— with the last moments of Epaminondas, Bayard, Wolfe, or Nelson. Mr. Alison has so graphically described the circumstances of the death of Moore, that we shall, for once, exceed the limits we had prescribed to ourselves in these introductory notes, by giving the following extract: “Sir John Moore received his death-wound while animating the 42nd to the charge. A cannon-ball struck his left breast, and beat him down by its violence to the earth ; but his countenance remained unchanged; not a sigh escaped his lips, and, sitting on the ground, he watched with anxious and steadfast eye the progress of the line. As it advanced, however, and it became manifest that the troops were gaining ground, his countenance brightened, and he reluctantly allowed himself to be led to the rear. Then the dreadful nature of the wound appeared manifest; the shoulder was shattered to pieces ; the arm hanging by a film of skin ; the breast and lungs almost laid open. As the soldiers placed him on a blanket to carry him from the field, the hilt of his sword was driven into the wound; an officer attempted to take it off, but the dying hero exclaimed, “ It is as well as it is; I had rather it should go off the field with me.' He continued to converse calmly, and even cheerfully; once only his voice faltered, as he spoke of his mother. Life was ebbing fast, and his strength was all but extinct, when he exclaimed, in words which will ever thrill in every British heart.--' I hope the people of England will be satisfied; I hope my country will do me justice.' Released in a few minutes after from his sufferings, he was wrapped by his attendants in his military cloak, and laid in a grave hastily formed on the ramparts of Corunna, where a monument was soon after con B Gone. structed over his uncoffined remains by the generosity of Marshal Ney. Not a word was spoken as the melancholy interment by torchlight took place; silently they laid him in his grave, while the distant cannon of the battle fired the funeral honours to his memory.". Alison's History of Europe. Derivation. Etymology. Syntax. Hero. Warrior. Lantern. Dead. We, v. 5, 1. 4. Lay and Lie. As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; O’er the grave where our hero we buried. The sods with our bayonets turning; And the lantern dimly burning. Not in sheet or in shroud we wound him; With his martial cloak around him. And we spoke not a word of sorrow; And we bitterly thought of the morrow. And smoothed down his lonely pillow, And we far away on the billow ! And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him,- In the grave where a Briton has laid him. When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory; Rev. C. WOLFE. 1. Breast, nsed in what sense ? 5. But.- What part of speech ? – What 2. Point out the ellipsis in this line. other word might be used instead of it? 3. Another reading of this line is, And 6. Heavy - Why? we steadfastly looked on the face of the 7. Another reading is, in.-Which is dead.—Which do you prefer, and why? to be preferred ? 4. Parse and construe little. II. BOADICEA, AN ODE. " BOADICEA, the queen of the tribe of the Iceni, and her daughter, having suffered outrage and barbarous cruelty from some licentious Roman soldiers, many of the tribes, roused to a common thirst of vengeance by her wrongs, flocked round her. She appeared among the assembled multitude exciting them to do battle. But the Romans, under their leader, Suetonius, were victorious over the combined host of barbarians, whom they cruelly slaughtered. The wretched Boadicea, disappointed alike of revenge and her country's release, died by her own hand.”—White's History of Great Britain and Ireland. Derivations. Etymology. Miscellaneous. Syntax. Indignant. Prophetic. Chief. Boadicea. Word, v.2, 1.3. Resentment. Pregnant. Country's. Ode. They, v. 8,1.4. Abhorred. Celestial. Sway. Roman rods. Progeny. Monarch. Glow. Druid. Posterity. Vengeance. Cæsar's eagles. Distinguish between the following words : Flew and Flowed. Due and Dew. Dying and Dyeing. Bleeding from the Roman rods, Counsel of her country's gods : Sat the Druid, hoary chief ;' Full of rage and full of grief. Weep upon thy matchless wrongs, All the terrors of our tongues. |